Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The team behind an innovative vibrating wristwatch that helped Emma Lawton—who lives with young-onset Parkinson’s disease—to draw again, introduced the device at a prestigious tech conference.
A group of tech superheroes — also known as researchers at recent Microsoft acquisition Maluuba — have achieved the seeming impossible, and reached the maximum possible score on classic 1980s Atari game Ms. Pac-Man.
Game over, man. A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic “Ms. Pac-Man” — making it very likely the first time anybody, human…
How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology, it turns out, is a whiz at playing Ms. Pac-Man, the 1980’s-era video game. The tech giant’s computers achieved a perfect score of 990,900, surpassing the existing (human held) record of…
Spurred by a colleague’s family tragedy, a Microsoft team deployed analysis and data visualization tools and found promising leads in combating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Seattle Children’s Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to further the…
The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (ACM SIGecom) honored Microsoft post-doctoral researcher Peng Shi with the 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Prediction and Optimization in School Choice,” submitted to the Massachusetts…
John Kahan manages a team of renowned Microsoft data scientists who are changing how society can use data effectively, from deciding when to plant crops to creating predictive business models.
REDMOND, Wash. (KOMO) — Local scientists have made intriguing discoveries related to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. But these aren’t health scientists. This new information comes from data scientists at Microsoft.
It was the photo that caught his eye. Juan Lavista Ferres had just become a first-time father, and he was jubilant. He brought a picture of his newborn child to work, and he saw a…
